Comines
Americannoun
noun
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Christophe Bourgois, 29, a builder, said it was worth his while to drive to the French border town of Halluin from his Belgian home town of Comines.
From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2022
Comines, an historian intervening, we must reluctantly pass, with thus barely mentioning his name.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
On the whole, however, no one would think of reading Comines for the merit, or even the quaintness of his style, nor can he be commended as a vivid, even if an inelegant describer.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
Towards the end of the fifteenth century modern French poetry may be said to have had its origin in Villon and French prose in Comines.
From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.
Holinshed and all our historians call this a yearly tribute; but Comines, the French memoir-writer, with a national spirit, denies that these gifts were either pensions or tributes.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
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